Scientists at Harvard believe they are close to bringing a long extinct creature back to the world.

Professor George Church says the team is working to create a hybrid embryo using material from an Asian elephant, the woolly mammoth’s closest living relative.

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“Our aim is to produce a hybrid elephant-mammoth embryo,” Church told the Guardian. “Actually, it would be more like an elephant with a number of mammoth traits. We’re not there yet, but it could happen in a couple of years.”

Known as the “mammophant,” researchers hope to create an artificial womb to carry the animal hybrid. According to the Guardian, the animal would look like an elephant, but would have small ears, along with long shaggy hair.

“We’re working on ways to evaluate the impact of all these edits and basically trying to establish embryogenesis in the lab,” Church added.

It has been over 4,000 years since the mammoth went extinct. The “de-extinction” project has been a goal of these scientists since 2015.